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“My gut feeling is we need to get behind it and we need to make this deal work, because what we need is certainty. It has been two very difficult years for manufacturers like ours in the UK.

“We are investing hundreds of millions of pounds in British manufacturing and what we need is certainty that we can continue to invest and trade properly here and it looks to me like this is the only deal in town.

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Mr Maier suggested that he would have wanted Mrs May to have gone further and committed to staying in the European single market, as well as remaining “closely aligned” on customs.

The Siemens boss said: “We have been clear from the very beginning that the ideal solution for us as a manufacturer – we have 14 UK manufacturing sites – and for us, to remain within the single market and a closely aligned customs union is the ideal solution.

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